Skinning DekiWiki

Intro

The intent of this page is to start documenting how the "look" of the DekiWiki can be tweaked.  This is very basic. For a complete and officlal skinning guide, go here.

Please contribute, we've only scratched the surface.

Here's a screenshot of the DekiWiki we just finished a light customization on:

(see below for a larger version of this image or just click this one)

Items customized:

• Replaced the MindTouch logo and link
  • This is located in the /skins/Ace.php file around line #620
• Replaced the image in the top left
  • replace this image: skins/common/images/wiki.png
• Changed the CSS stylings
  • All CSS files are located in /dekiwiki-current/dekiwiki/skins/ace/*.css (usually pre-pended with an underscore). The bulk of styling is handled in __k8.css
• Changed the links in the top nav bar
  • These can be found in skins/Ace.php file around line #385
• Changed the wiki name to reflect the name of the client's wiki
  • You can change this in /LocalSettings.php around line #30
• Changed the links available in the "links" menu
  • You can change the links by editing the LocalNav.php
  • example line: wfNavAdd('Calendar', 'Grantee_Home_Page/Grantee_Calendar', MKS_STAT_TOP_GRANTEE_CALENDAR);
  • first field is the name that appears in the menu
  • second field is the link to the page (take from visiting page and stealing url)
  • third field is a mistery, but seems to work if you make it match the URL
• Made the default Help pages editable
  • In the LocalSettings.php file, add this line to the end:
    
    $wgLockedNamespaces = array();
    
    Then go ahead and edit. This will "unlock" pages setup by the install of DekiWiki that are not otherwise editable.